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Tunisia Tuesday bolstered its domination of the African volleyball sports as it clinched for the 11th time the title of African Men’s Volleyball Championship after beating rival Cameroon. The Tunisian men team defeated the Cameroonian squad by 3 sets to 1 in the final game at Kigali Arena. The North African giants started off on […]
Over 90 political and civil society activists affirmed Sunday in a statement “commitment to the 2014 Constitution which crowned the Revolution process,” and rejection “of any attempt to circumvent or violate it,” reported TAP news agency. The statement signatories considered that the latest remarks by the advisor to the President “confirm the putschist process initiated […]
Tunisian security forces, the National Guard, arrested Saturday a takfirist and alleged member of a terrorist group, wanted for terrorism, reports say. The arrest took place in the city of Bizerte, capital of Bizerte governorate, the hometown of the alleged terrorist. The ministry of justice ordered his detention and sentenced him to six years in […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied is working to conduct a constitutional change of the country’s supreme law following his seizure of the governing power and suspension of the parliament since July 25, his adviser Walid Hajjem has told Reuters. “This system cannot continue … changing the system means changing the constitution through a referendum, perhaps … […]
Tunisia’s anti-terrorism judicial center issued a committal warrant Tuesday against a young man from the Sahel region for threatening to assassinate President Kais Saied in Facebook posts. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed, reportedly confessed to having written and disseminated the offending statutes on his Facebook account. The incident comes amid […]
The Group of Seven also known as G7 through their various missions in Tunisia Monday called on President Kais Saied to propose a clear roadmap out of the ongoing exceptional measures including suspension of the parliament and seizure of the executive power that he has taken since July 25 in an alleged attempt to restore […]
US Democrat Senator Chris Murphy Saturday called on Tunisian President Kais Saied to bring back the North African country to the democratic path and swift end to the state of emergency, in reference to the ongoing exceptional measures put in place by the Tunisian President since July 25. The measures include suspension of the parliament […]
The World Bank has tied allocation of a loan to Tunisia to a number of conditions including the appointment of an economist as Premier, the Washington-based bank’s Vice President for Middle East and North Africa Ferid Belhaj, who was on a visit to Tunis this week, has revealed. Tunisia has been without a Prime Minister […]
Tunisia has secretly handed over a prominent Algerian political refugee to Algiers few days after Algerian government arrested and is expected to extradite former Tunisian presidential candidate and business tycoon Nabil Karoui. Slimane Bouhafs, who had been living in Tunisia since August 2018 under the protection of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), […]
Algeria Sunday arrested Tunisian media mogul and leader of the second largest party in the Parliament, Nabil Karoui, for entering illegally in its territory, reports say. Nabil Karoui, according to media reports, was arrested in the Algerian border city of Tébessa alongside four other people including his brother and lawmaker Ghazi Karoui. They will appear […]